Pan-Africa

This is a pan-Africa keyboarding chart. Results were compiled from data received from SIL entities in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo. Where possible, the keystroke sequences that the majority of the entities seemed to prefer was used.

Ethiopia

Kenya

This keyboard was developed for use by BTL (Bible Translation & Literacy) language teams in Kenya. It was originally created for customized fonts but has been updated for Unicode. This keyboard is developed for Keyman 6.0 on any keyboard.

Liberia

Vai

Other Vai resources: Two Vai Unicode fonts are available here. Dukor is based on SIL Vai. Windows 7 provides a Unicode font with Vai support called Ebrima. TECkit mapping files for converting SIL Vai text to Unicode are provided here.

Americas (SIL)

Wayuunaiki (Colombia/Venezuela)

This keyboard was developed for keyboarding Wayuu which is spoken in Colombia and Venezuela. This keyboard is developed for Keyman 6.0 on any keyboard. Keyman 6.0 must be installed prior to attempting to install this keyboard. Guidelines for who can use Keyman can also be find at this site.

After installing Keyman, download the Wayuu keyboard and double-click on the file you downloaded. This should install the keyboard and the documentation. Read the documentation by going to Start / Programs / Wayuu Keyboard / Wayuu Documentation.

Non-SIL Unicode Keyman keyboards

The following are some Web sites that have Unicode keyboards available for download. These are listed by the language supported, organized by regions of the world. This list should not be considered complete. The Keyman website has the most extensive list of keyboards.

Note: SIL does not endorse or provide support for these. The contact address at each Web site should be used for any user support.

Other Keyman and keyboarding resources

Tavultesoft KeymanJoan Wardell, 2007-04-23Keyman is a keyboard management utility that makes it practical to input many different languages in almost any Windows application. Keyman allows you to have arbitrarily long input sequences and to have diacritics typed after the base character.

Keyboard Installation and UseLorna Priest and Joan Wardell, 2009-02-19Computers were designed to work primarily with English. The problem is that many of us wish to input other languages into the computer. This is possible by switching keyboards (not the physical keyboard) on the computer.
In this overview we give details of how to use Microsoft and Keyman keyboards. Microsoft keyboards are probably preferable to use if you wish to input text in one of the languages for which they have supplied a keyboard. If you need a keyboard for some other language, or you do not like Microsoft's layout, you may want to use a keyboard manager like Tavultesoft's Keyman. Keyman allows you to create your own customized keyboard, or if you choose, you may use a Keyman keyboard someone else has created.
Instructions are given here for installing Microsoft keyboards as well as Keyman keyboards.

Converting Keyman 3.2 Keyboards to Keyman 6Joan M. Wardell, 2003-03-05Getting your old Keyman 3.2 keyboards to work in Keyman5 or 6 is not difficult. There are just a few modifications needed, as discussed below. Whether you should convert your keyboards so that they can be used in Windows 2000 and higher is a question that should also be considered. It may be better to encourage users to move to new Unicode keyboards, rather than continue producing texts which must be converted. But there are legitimate reasons for using legacy fonts and keyboards, so this is how you get the keyboards to work.

Building Keyboards with Keyman 6.0Lorna Priest, 2003-02-20We will be creating a keyboard which will allow us to type IPA text. Our goal will be to learn how to develop a Keyman keyboard, not to create a complete keyboard.

Legacy Fonts and KeyboardsLorna A Priest, 2003-09-24The fonts and keyboards on this page are considered "legacy" solutions. As such, they are made available for use and downloading, although Unicode solutions are encouraged.

An introduction to keyboard layout design theory: What goes where?Martin Hosken, 2003-02-17Designing a keyboard layout is relatively easy: you just allocate codepoints to keystrokes. The difficulty comes when trying to decide what codepoints to assign to what keystrokes. Do you design based around the characters on the keytops of a user's keyboard or the relative position of the keys? What do you do if you want to be able to type more characters than there are keys in your keyboard?

SIL Legacy Keyman Keyboards and fonts

The fonts and keyboards on this page are considered "legacy" solutions. As such, they are made available for use and downloading.

Unicode solutions are encouraged and are being developed for fonts and keyboards. Also available for some legacy systems are mapping files to convert data encoded in a legacy font to Unicode.

Africa

SIL Mali

There are two separate solutions for the Mali Standard font, one for the Qwerty and the other for the Azerty (French) keyboard. The MaliStdQwerty.zip file contains the 'English' keyboarding solution for the Qwerty keyboard. The Mali-Clavier.zip file contains the 'French' keyboarding solution for the Azerty keyboard.

Each of these .zip files contains the following files:

Font files (latest version of the Mali Standard font)

A Keyman redistributable .exe file for installing Keyman 6.0, the fonts
and the keyboarding solution.

Asia

SIL New Tai Lue

This is a separate download from the fonts. These are replacement keyboards for the Keyman 3.2 keyboards which came with the SIL New Tai Lue Font System. They have been compiled for use with Keyman 6.

The original keyboards were written for Keyman 3.2 and do not function with Keyman 5 or 6. No corrections or additions have been made to these keyboards. They do not use Unicode and will only work with the SIL New Tai Lue fonts.

SIL Tai Dam

This is a separate download from the fonts. These are replacement keyboards for the Keyman 3.2 keyboards which came with the SIL Tai Dam Font System. They have been compiled for use with Keyman 6.

The original keyboards were written for Keyman 3.2 and do not function with Keyman 5 or 6. No corrections or additions have been made to these keyboards. They do not use Unicode and will only work with the SIL Tai Dam fonts.

Europe/Middle East

Greek

This is a separate download from the fonts. However, they will only work with the SIL Greek Font System fonts. These are replacement keyboards for the Keyman 3.2 keyboards which came with the SIL Greek Font System. They have been compiled for use with Keyman 6.

The original keyboards were written for Keyman 3.2 and do not function with Keyman 5 or 6. No corrections or additions have been made to these keyboards. They do not use Unicode.

IPA

This is a separate download from the fonts. However, they will only work with the SIL Encore IPA fonts. These are replacement keyboards for the Keyman 3.2 keyboards which came with the Keyman 3.2 download. They have been compiled for use with Keyman 5 and above.

The original keyboards were written for Keyman 3.2 and do not function with Keyman 5 or 6. No corrections or additions have been made to these keyboards. They do not use Unicode and thus they will only work with the SIL Encore IPA fonts.